It's not that you missed something, it's simply that the points you mentioned could easily serve as evidence in support of the argument you're attacking.

Your main argument is seemingly the nonchalance and disinterest in the wormhole displayed by the remaining humans, predicated on the fact that humanity has all it needs and doesn't require a planetary body on which to subsist.

However, that lackadaisical nature could easily serve as evidence for the fact that the wormhole, quite simply, is no longer there. They're drifting along with "no urgency", as you put, because the wormhole is gone. They have no direction or plan because the portal that held their future has closed.

Narratively, it makes sense that the wormhole would be closed, at least in terms of the its purpose. The hyperdimensional beings didn't have an interest in providing humanity with an expressway to a suitable new domicile, but rather to guide them specifically to the black hole. That was the purpose behind the presence of the wormhole - to emancipate humanity from Earth by edifying them on their understanding of gravity. With this understanding, it seems logical that the wormhole would indeed close after that venture concluded, especially after we see the tesseract close, which was overtly linked to the wormhole through the fabric of spacetime.

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Posted by Volvagia

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Posted on 11/24/14 at 2:40 am to Cs

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Your main argument is seemingly the nonchalance and disinterest in the wormhole displayed by the remaining humans, predicated on the fact that humanity has all it needs and doesn't require a planetary body on which to subsist.

Ah....I see.

My point isn't that though.

Cooper Station is an argument against that in fact.

They are planning on exploring the wormhole, and are pre positioning assets to facilitate it at the end of the film.

The implications of "disinterest" that you are referring to is from statements made earlier in the thread that if the wormhole was open, Cooper wouldn't have needed to take a Ranger to get to Brand.

They insinuated that there was a fleet of ships just hovering around Saturn eagerly waiting to go through.

I was demonstrating that wasn't the case.

My argument is that given that from their perspective, the Lazarus and Endurance missions all failed miserably. So factoring in anything requiring the other side of the wormhole to survive was considered a low percentage move.

And because it wasn't judged to be a major factor in survival anymore with the ability to build massive stations, it jumped way down the priority list.

If you are in your front yard and your house is burning down, you probably aren't googling for airfares to Hawaii. Sure, you might go on that trip later....but it will be after you get your affairs in order on the homefront.

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